The narrator closes his eyes once again and tries to visualize such a circle but is unable to. The man tells him that when you finally achieve such difficult things as reaching an understanding of something you once couldn't, it becomes the cream of your life, the crème de la crème. Retiring to a small park nearby, he later meets an old man who implores him to visualize a circle that has many centers but no circumference. No one responds and there seems to be no signs of a recital set to take place. When he arrives, the gate is locked and the parking lot empty. On a Sunday afternoon in November, he travels to the recital hall, located at the top of a mountain in Kobe. The first-person narrator accepts a sudden invitation to a piano recital from an old acquaintance. "First Person Singular" ( 一人称単数, Ichininshō Tansū) The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection ( ヤクルト・スワローズ詩集, Yakuruto Suwarōzu Shishū) "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" ( 品川猿の告白, Shinagawa Saru no Kokuhaku) "On a Stone Pillow" ( 石のまくらに, Ishi no Makura ni ) As its title suggests, all eight stories in the book are told in a first-person singular narrative. It was first published on 18 July 2020 by Bungeishunjū. First Person Singular ( Japanese: 一人称単数, Hepburn: Ichininshō Tansū) is a collection of eight stories by Haruki Murakami.
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